18 attorneys general urge Ed Dept to hold off on new Title IX rules amid coronavirus crisis – Education Dive
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Dive Brief:
- Eighteen Democratic attorneys general are urging U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and other federal officials to pause the release of federal regulations that would govern how colleges handle sexual violence cases.
- The coronavirus has already burdened college administrators, they wrote in a letter last week to DeVos and three other officials. New rules on Title IX, the federal sex discrimination law, would spur more confusion about current sexual misconduct cases, they wrote.
- Critics of the proposed regulations argue they would create unnecessary, courtroom-style Title IX proceedings and narrow the scope of cases colleges would need to investigate.
Dive Insight:
DeVos published her draft rules in 2018 after walking back Title IX guidance from the Obama administration the previous year. The Obama-era policies were largely credited with giving sexual assault survivors new protections, but they were derided in some circles for being unfairly slanted against accused students.
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